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[-] [email protected] 93 points 9 months ago

[-] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

HP is the worst.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Why is “jup” in German/Dutch/Swedish/Danish spelling?

Are you an undercover German?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Jup.

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[+] [email protected] 77 points 9 months ago

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[-] [email protected] 70 points 9 months ago

That guy is too smart, he'd better he careful. He'll be found dead at his desk after mysteriously choking on an HP cyan cartridge.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

They wouldn't be so obvious.

They would just slowly replace all his blood with HP 952XL Magenta

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

That's an expensive way to kill someone. It'd probably be cheaper to pay for a hitman at the point.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

I did something similiar, I named all the printers with an esoteric naming scheme based on the OU and location, but completely indecipherable, and GPO reset the default printer every morning. That way the print was always released to a random printer that the user chose in utter bewilderment and confusion, so there was no chance any particular printer would see enough use that I'd have to change the toner in this decade.

Worked great.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Lawful good solution and chaotic good solution

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

imho, the new printers are pretty good. Like ever since the companies stopped the inkjet fiasco and switched over to the inktank thing, its been really smooth.

My experience with the Epson ecotank is pretty good.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

HP is still the worst, though.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The only difference between HP and a 1930's Italian mob protection racket is they don't break your kneecaps yet

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Yeah, even their inktanks are unusable.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Software like papercut is the best.

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago

APAB

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago

Hello, printer driver developer here. I hate you all

[-] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Man, I just love the way you guys ignore basic exception handling, insist on using undocumented APIs, exclusively hook into system resources, fail to address even the most fundamental of good memory management practises and then demand your software runs as an unprotected kernel-level driver.

It's fucking great.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Hey, you can blame my senior who did most of it and left this mess to me when he quit. I just pray everyday that nothing breaks since we don't even have internal documentation for this code and almost no comments whatsoever :)

I love my job :D

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

PC Load Letter

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

My Brother laser printer sends its regards.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

We can tell.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

Brother brand Laser Printer, gentleman. Only printer I'd ever touch

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I couldn't convince my dad to get a Brother laser printer, so he got a Brother Inkjet. It still works so much better, and the ink lasts so much longer, than any other inkjet I've used.

[-] Sineljora 3 points 9 months ago

13 years going on mine. Only ever bought new toner 2 times.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

6 years total, first 4 was as a uni student on mine. Never gave me a single issue and still running off the same toner

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

printer is one odd bunch of computing output devices

when other types of output devices (such as monitor display, hdmi, usb, etc) evolves and improved over decades, printer is bring so much little into the mix

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

They evolved backwards. Back in the day you sent the raw text over the parallel port and it just printed it

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

Back in my day. Printers printed in dots. And that's the way we liked it.

Put cabled in. And it worked.

And it was so satisfying ripping the side holes off.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Ripping the side holes off and putting them into a box so you have an entire box full of shredded paper sides

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Also satisfying: folding two strips like this:

[-] EmoDuck 23 points 9 months ago

Why tf do printers even need drivers? Where do they have to go? Why can't they get there by themselves?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

CUPS my beloved

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

They usually have casters but they're pretty flimsy.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Quote me after dealing with print drivers acting up and spooler service crashes for the nth time that day (also worked in it support for several years):

"We can land men on the moon, but somehow getting a printer, a technology that has existed litteraly since before computers had screens, to work is still complete and utter black magic...!"

[-] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Printers are proof there's a God and that it thrives on our suffering.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Ink for the ink god, drivers for the driver throne.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

I never noticed, but it looks like the guy who took the photo got sprayed too.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

pc load letter?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

WTF does that mean?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

#1 reason to go paperless at the office lol

[-] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I literally go to the copy place now and tell everyone I "don't know how" to work on printers.

Life is too short.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Multifunction-Printers are even worse. If you got a decent one by chance, after 5 odd years the integrated server gets wonky and the usb controller starts randomizing MAC addresses, so you have to setup it anew each time. Those things are haunted!

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

We have central printing with color Kyoceras on each floor, with black and white as default preset (pushed via GPO) we managed to decrease our printing expenses by 80%

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Printers are the worst!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

so we have an uncovered smiling cop pepper-spraying and a dude with a full protective mask and gas type filters turning head and closing eyes. :) Is it only me who find this pic weird.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

It's what pigs do. Don't matter the country.

Also keep in mind, the person getting spray isn't just a regular protestor but the press.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I believe the OP was asking why the cop isn't worried about spraying themselves in the face. Pepper spray has a habit of getting everywhere.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Hey it's me zebra...🔥🔥🔥🔥 oopsie

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